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Month: January 2017

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Deep in my Heart is Donen Done Right. And Wrong.

Jan 30, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

Watching Stanley Donen’s Deep in My Heart, a biographical musical about the life of famed musical and operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, I was reminded of an observation I once made about Michael Curtiz’s Yankee Doodle […]

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Sharing a Smile and a Tear With My Kid

Jan 28, 2017 Jill Blake 0

When I was pregnant with my daughter, I made a promise that I would share my love of music and film with her. All throughout my pregnancy I cranked up the classic rock, 80’s alternative, […]

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Love it, Don’t Leave It – The Ruth Etting Story

Jan 26, 2017 Cassie Brown 0

Ruth Etting was more than Chicago’s sweetheart, she was an accomplished singer and super star of her era. The film, Love me or Leave Me (1955) is the biographical account of Ruth’s rise to stardom. […]

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Warner Archive Hollywood Legends of Horror: Six Weirdo Pre-Code Horrors

Jan 25, 2017 Patrick King 0

It took me a second to figure out the connecting threads between the movies in the Hollywood Legends of Horror collection, recently released through Warner Archive, and it’s kind of cool. They’re all pre-code low budget […]

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Have Stroller, Will Travel: Criterion Collection’s Lone Wolf and Cub

Jan 24, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

A lone samurai, heavy but forbidding, pushes a wobbly cart down a dusty road. He approaches a vendor, rolling his wares past, who tips his hat. He spies, inside the Samurai’s cart, an infant boy. […]

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To Be or Not to Be (1942) and the Importance of Satire

Jan 21, 2017 Jill Blake 0

Whenever I’m feeling really low, I reach for the Lubitsch. I suspect I’m not the only one who does this. From personal favorites such as Trouble in Paradise (1932), Design For Living (1933) and The […]

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